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As Red Dwarf herself was a bit of an ordeal at times - with lack of access panels and the like, Bill understands the usefulness of a 'sanity break' and so I helped Neil Ellis with what we called the 'bigiature' (big miniature) a close up section of the main ship.
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Neil Ellis did the Lions share of this job. I just helped out with a few panels and then weathered it as Neil finished off Blue Midget. |
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We painted panels as we went along with Red Oxide primer. |
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The landing bay unpainted. |  |
Initially, the bay was red like the rest of Red Dwarf, but then Doug fancied it in a lighter colour, so it went to grey.Which works better when you compare them. Good call Doug. Shame you never really saw it in the show. |
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Logo section underway. |  |
I could have painted little paint dribbles below the letters and banded the white more, but there REALLY wasnt the time for that....or should I say, the money. |
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I didnt JUST throw powderpaint at it(or myself), but added lots of masking tape, so areas would stay clean. I used superfine 0000 gauge steel wool to take back the black BLACK BLACK! before peeling off the tape, thern a mist of matt laquer to seal it all. |  |
Fairly giant size engineering, but why not? Its Red Dwarf!! |
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Rightly so, Doug wanted SOME windows so it tied in a little with the main model (though it doesnt really match ANYWHERE on the ship), but rather than just blank them off with tracing paper/opal perspex and light them, we thought we'd try something else. |  |
I knew I had a lot of JUNK slides in my digs, so I offered to bring them in..NOT holiday snaps, as Neil jokes on the DVD, but random junk that I'd been meaning to throw away. (camera going off accidentally and taking a picture of the rooflight...that kind of thing) |
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Idea for the loading bay doors CLOSED. Never even filmed. I think they just ran out of time....or not needed. It was just another one of the many swap-over panels we made to give doug more flexibility on the shoot day. |  |
Things in disarray as I wade into the weathering process. |
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The best shot I have of the bay. |  |
This would have been a nice angle to film it from too, then composite Blue Midget flying out of it. |
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Four rows of holes and a torch moved back and forth would have been a nice low tech effect. I have a film which I'll post of me trying it with just one row (could have strapped 4 torches together) |  |
Its not so much which bits I did, but which bits didn't I do on the bigiature. The bits I didn't do are not highlighted in green. Not forgetting the swap-over panels for the same areas. (Wouldnt want people to think I did more than I actually did). |
